The Dead Sea Cipher

Dinah Van der Lyn hears the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut. "Help" is the only English word spoken. She thinks the men are simply drunk and fighting. Her mistake is the first step on an odyssey of terror that will take Dinah to the fabled cities of Sidon, Tyro, Damascus....

And then Jerusalem, racing through the twisting streets not knowing if the man she is following will lead her to safety...or into a deadly trap!

©1970 Elizabeth Peters (P)1996 Blackstone Audiobooks

Dated but still fun

It’s funny to hear about that “crazy new music” by the Beatles, and other references that date this story to the 1970s or thereabouts.
I was also struck by the references to the desert landscape and to archaeology, which play such a large role in the Amelia Peabody stories.

Authors knowledge of THE HOLY LAND and extensive research.

Interesting characters, Biblical knowledge, no unpleasant modern surprises that left me with a disgusting waste of my time feeling!!

good book

great book but recording has muffled voices in the back, as long as you dont mind it you are good.

Readable but barely

Not the Elizabeth Peters I know except for the focus on archeology. Better to make it a short story so she could make the one point she wants to make about humanity and theology

Interesting early writing by Peters

A little trite, and the story isn't as developed with the depth of Peter's Peabody Series, but a fun read.